A spam filter is an application that blocks unasked-for emails from entering a given inbox. A considerable percentage of the email correspondence around the globe is composed of spam emails: offers for pills or cash, false banking notifications, and so on. For this reason, it’s rather important to enable email filters to avoid not only unsolicited bulk emails, but also any chance of being tricked in some way. Email filters detect different things, so as to deliver higher levels of protection – particular words and phrases or the frequency with which they surface in the text, the sender’s address, or the IP address of the sender’s SMTP server. Web hosting providers often use the services of 3rd-party spam-tracing organizations that provide up-to-date databases to render email filtering easier and more efficient without affecting legitimate emails, even if they comprise suspicious words.

Spam Filters in Shared Web Hosting

Our shared web hosting servers use one of the best anti-spam filters available. It’s called SpamAssassin and is available with each package, so if you host your domains with us, you can select one of the five protection levels that the spam filter offers for any mailbox that you have here. You can do this with just 2 clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is used to manage all cloud web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header field and the content of every email message, calculates a spam score and then continues based on the level that you have picked. Every email account can have a different setting and you can select if the messages that the filter reports as spam should be erased or redirected to another email address where you can examine them at a later time, so as to prevent erasing a legitimate message. Switching to some other level or disabling the protection is also truly easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you use one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, you won’t have to worry about unsolicited bulk messages stuffing your mailboxes every now and then, as you can resort to the popular SpamAssassin email filter that we offer with each semi-dedicated server account. Our in-house developed Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any mailbox with several clicks and you can pick one of the 5 safety levels – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any moment if, for example, legitimate email messages get filtered, or if junk emails go through and reach your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered email messages to be delivered to a special email account such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. Thus, you can check them from time to time to ensure that you haven’t missed an authentic email.